WSO CCC OTD - 09 February 2016

OriginalGriff

An antithetical xenon Xe -> EX
has a shrub without tail TREE -> TRE
and me ME

are so utmost EXTREME But...I'm not good at plants so I could be wrong. I can cope with "Grass" and "Tree" but I get confused in the middle ground with "Shrub" and "Bush"... The difference between flowers and weeds is easy: A flower was the one it was easy to pull out...

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Brittle1618

Superbly solved. You're up for tomorrow :thumbsup:

OriginalGriff wrote:

I'm not good at plants

Botany has never been my fav subject too :laugh:

OriginalGriff wrote:

I could be wrong

No you ain't :)

OriginalGriff wrote:

I can cope with "Grass" and "Tree"

Yeah, they're copable :laugh:

OriginalGriff wrote:

A flower was the one it was easy to pull out

Except ones, surrounded by weeds :Jig: :rose::jig:

Nagy Vilmos

An old friend[^] who was a self-described gardener once said a weed was anything you didn't want in the garden. I believe this did not extend to bloody pigeons and stupid moggies but I feel they fall into the same category.

veni bibi saltavi

OriginalGriff

So...we're swapping jobs tomorrow then? :laugh:

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chriselst

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

once said a weed was anything you didn't want in the garden

I've always said a weed is something that is growing where you don't want it to. For example I want grass in my garden, unfortunately most of it is growing in the flower beds whereas the lawn is so bald I have to let the grass grow and attempt a comb over.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Brittle1618

Yeah, it seems :) We played pretty well, huh :-D :cool:

Brittle1618

BTW hey, how was my first CCC? Did it succeed to prove me a bit sensible? ;P

OriginalGriff

I'd say so - it worked! :thumbsup:

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Brittle1618

Tashakkur OG :-O It'd encourage me trying my luck to guess more CCCs :) ;)

OriginalGriff

Bir şey değil. (Hope that's right, Google Translate...)

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Brittle1618

Now that's sweet actually :) Yeah that's right (in Turkish) "Tashakkur" is basically a Persian word. Though Persian is not my mother tongue, I like using some Persian words in my convos :) To me, Persian and Turkish languages to seem have close resemblance (with respect to both words and accent). Not sure though.

9082365

A shrub is so not a tree! :rolleyes:

I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!

Brittle1618

Oh okiee.. :) Google told me that I could use "Shrub" as synonymous of "Tree" :~

9082365

Brittle1618 wrote:

Google told me

:omg: And if Google told you it was beneficial to your health to jump into a volcano ... ? Kidding (maybe?)! It is a common misapprehension but there is a clear distinction. A tree is fractal, with both roots and top branching out from a single large (relatively) trunk. A shrub has a crown of stems of equal size arising from either a central or diffuse root system.

I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!